464 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



posteriorly to the upper lips are white; the nostrils them- 

 selves seal-brown. The whiskers are black. The area above 

 the eye is white with a dark blotch just below the horn base 

 and the lower eyelid is white also. The occipital portion of 

 the head and the back of the ears are ochraceous-buff. The 

 terminal half of the ears is dark seal-brown and the inside 

 of the ears is white with a broad seal-brown bar extending 

 from the posterior border to the centre. 



The female shot by Kermit Roosevelt is colored like the 

 male, but differs distinctly in lacking the great bushy mane 

 of the nape, this structure being represented by a narrow 

 median line of black hair. The bush on the forehead is 

 quite wanting and the ground-color of the body is more 

 reddish, being ochraceous-buff without the vinaceous tint 

 except on the lower sides. The dorsal mane of black is 

 continued along the entire length to the root of the tail, and 

 is crossed by the white side stripes which number fourteen 

 on the left side and fifteen on the right. The greater 

 number of stripes found in this female is not a sexual color 

 difference but merely an individual variation. The black 

 blotch on the front of the fetlocks is more distinctly marked 

 than in the male and the mane on the throat is shorter-haired, 

 the dewlap being hardly evident. 



The coloration of the calf is not known, but it is without 

 doubt similar to that of the female, as is the case in its near 

 relative, the common eland. The younger male shot by 

 Kermit Roosevelt is quite identical in color and mane 

 characters with the female, although its horns were longer 

 than those of the old bull. It is an animal just reaching 

 maturity, the milk molars having only recently been shed. 

 As age advances in the male, the mane on the neck is 

 extended, working its way gradually down the sides of the 

 neck; the body hair becomes thinner and more vinaceous; 

 the stripes less distinct, some of them disappearing entirely; 

 and the black bar in front of the fetlock grows fainter and 

 smaller. The chief color differences of this species from 

 the common eland are the white bar on the lower throat, 

 the two white cheek spots, the great black mane on the 

 nape and shoulders, the black bar on the front of the hocks, 

 and the broad, black-tipped ears with a black bar on their 

 inner side. Such color differences are merely a reversion to 



